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Ho Chi Minh |
he was the leader of Indochinese Communist party |
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Vietminh |
an organization whose goal it was to win Vietnam’s independence from foreign rule |
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Domino Theory |
countries on the brink of communism to a row of dominos waiting to fall one after the other |
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Dien Bien Phu |
in northwestern Vietnam |
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Geneva Accords |
temporarily divided Vietnam along the 17th parallel |
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Ngo Dinh Diem |
Ngo Dinh Diem, First President of South Vietnam. Ngo Dinh Diem was born on January 3rd in 1901 in Hue, Vietnam as the son of a minister. His family was Roman Catholic and his father was a counselor to the Vietnamese emperor |
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Vietcong |
a communist opposition group in the South |
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Ho Chi Minh Trail |
network of paths along the borders of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia |
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Tonkin Gulf Resolution |
On August 4, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson announced that two days earlier, U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin had been attacked by the North Vietnamese.Johnson dispatched U.S. planes against the attackers and asked Congress to pass a resolution to support his actions. |
